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Laws or rules of life and how society works can help us assess where we stand and how we can apply them to our endeavours. Sometimes we make our own rules as we go along. Other times, it helps having the wisdom of others who have walked on the journeys before us.
Here are 5 laws that have helped me on my journey:
- The law of reciprocity
The law of reciprocity is one of the basic tenets of social psychology. It states that we in many social situations, we have the tendency to pay back any favour we received from others.
Think about when someone did something for you? Did you feel like you had to provide something back? A friend of mine is just on a whole new level. I help her out once, she has been offering her help generously since then.
People are much kinder than we think they are. Most of them at least. It has been shown that when kindness is shown even from someone we do not like, we will feel like we are indebtedness to that person.
In a way that could be applied to social media and online communities.
When somebody likes or comments on our page, product, post, we feel like we have to return the gesture. In a way, it is a beautiful start of an engaging communication.
